Show fire slowly consuming tree flames issuing from the top of a live redwood tree Is the sight that can be seen in the state park in the big basin this Is the third time in fourteen months that flames have been visible the fire Is burning con scantly but at times so slowly that it Is not perceptible the heart of the tree Is decayed and it burns like a punk until the blaze burns a hole through the trunk this forms a vent and causes the smoldering em bers to burst into flames the tree was teet in height when it first 4 took fire now it Is but ninety feet high santa cruz correspondent san francisco call |